Improvement in cuttle-fish holders



C. H. RENTZ.

CUTTLE FISH HOLDER. W No.178,956. Patented June 20,1876.

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CHARLES H. RENTZ, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CUTTLE-FISH HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,956, dated June 20,1876 application filed March 27, 1876.

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES H. RENTZ, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Cuttle-Fish Holder;and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with theaccompanying Jdrawin gs and the letters of reference marked thereon, tobe a full, clear, and exact description, and which said drawingsconstitute part of this specification, and represent, in-- Figure l, afront perspective view, and in Fig. 2 an edge view. 4

This invention relates to a device for holding cuttle-fishor food forbird-cages; and it con slsts in an elastic-wire clamp, formed into jaws,to surround the article, and with means for suspending it in the cage,as more fully hereinafter described,

A single piece of wire, of the length required, according to the size ofthe holder, is doubled at the center and bent into a hook or The twobranches I) c are then turned slightly to the right or left for a shortdistance, and then bent to the right and left, and returned in a planeat right angles to the parts I) 0, so as to form loops 6 d, and thenturned down vertically to form the sides g, and, below, each bent toform loops 6, substantially like the loops at above, and the ends fturned up and back-into the loops at, the elasticity of thewire holdingthe endsf in that position. The elasticity of the wire allows the loopsto be spread from each other, as indicated in broken lines, and theseloops with the sides 9 g and the turned-up ends form a frame or holder,within which the article is placed, and the reaction of the springgrasps the fish or other material with sufficient force to firmly holdit, and thus held it may be suspended at any desired point in the cage.

The herein described cattle-fish holder, consisting of the securing hookor loop a, the side loops d, the bottom loops 0, the said loops forminga grasping device to receive and hold the fish, all substantially asdescribed.

CHARLES H. RENTZ. Witnesses:

JOHN E.. EARLE,

CLARA BROUGHTON.

